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Pro-Palestinian protests and encampments are springing up at numerous colleges, leading to arrests and heightened security concerns. Here’s what's happening.

Students at Emerson College established an encampment off Boylston Street, in what two students and a faculty member described as an act of solidarity with pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University, while a similar camp arose at MIT.

Columbia and Yale universities are cracking down on pro-Palestinian encampments, arresting protesters within recent days amid heightened security concerns. Here’s why tent cities are popping up at elite colleges.

From Yale to the University of Michigan, MIT and the University of North Carolina -- more protesters inspired by Columbia are pitching tents on campus.

The Student Government Association (SGA) did not hold its scheduled meeting on Friday, March 22, following the arrests of 13 students outside the Cutler Majestic Theatre during President Jay Bernhardt’s inauguration.

The Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) hosted a panel on March 20 as a part of the many events leading up to the inauguration of President Jay Bernhardt.  EPI launched in 2017 at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord (MCI-Concord), offering the same courses taught on Emerson’s main campus for official Emerson credits. Students at MCI-Concord...

Dr. Gregory Payne, chair of the Communication Studies Department, celebrated his 40th anniversary of teaching at Emerson College earlier this month, a milestone he feels extremely blessed to have reached.  “I came over and taught a class at the legacy campus in 1984,” said Payne. “And, forty years later, I’m still here.”  Payne completed his...

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin has selected Rachel Davis Mersey to serve as the next dean of the Moody College of Communication.

Surrounded by books in a home nestled among the Piney Woods of Lake Palestine in northeast Texas, a 79-year-old former journalist in failing health was doing his homework. With the help of his wife Nancy, BA ’67, who often transcribed dictations or his increasingly illegible handwriting, Larry Mayo labored away on the final assignments required […]

With this year's books going to the Henderson Inclusion School, district officials hope the annual Emerson student-led book drive will reinforce their efforts to improve reading instruction and expand inclusive special education.